Tour a big city – one pizza at a time!

Food & Health

Would you eat soup made from crickets?
Bugs in a kitchen are usually something to be squashed or swatted. But at Le Cordon Bleu, the French cooking school, chefs and food scientists spent a week simmering, sauteing and grilling insects. The chefs wanted to extract innovative flavors. They say it could open a new frontie...
- Posted on February 26, 2015

Would you rather eat your chocolate, or drink it?
What do you picture when you hear the word chocolate? Most of us picture a candy bar, a box of bonbons, or an Easter bunny. And when we think about consuming chocolate, we probably think of the verb "eat," not "drink." And we would describe its taste with the adjective "sweet."...
- Posted on February 6, 2015

What? Another country has run out of fries?
Forget the French fries. How about a side of yuca with that Big Mac?
Venezuela's more than 100 McDonald's franchises have run out of potatoes. Now they are serving alternatives. Like deep-fried arepa flatbreads or yuca. That's a starchy staple of traditional South American c...
- Posted on January 21, 2015

Fast-food chains feel need to get “real”
Fast-food chains have a New Year's resolution: Drop the junk.
Customers don't want food they think is overly processed. McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chains are trying to shed their reputation for serving meals that are loaded with chemicals.
"This demand for fresh ...
- Posted on January 7, 2015

How can an entire country run out of butter?
When Japanese pose for pictures, instead of saying "Cheese!" some say "Butter!" These days, butter is more likely cause for frowning. It is being rationed.
Grocery stores are limiting each customer to a maximum of two packages of butter. Last week the government announced i...
- Posted on December 16, 2014

What makes Hellmann’s “real” mayonnaise real?
You have to break some eggs to make an omelet. And according to a lawsuit from the maker of Hellmann's, the same goes for mayonnaise.
The food company Unilever is suing a California company that uses the word "Mayo" in its sandwich spread name. Unilever says that federal reg...
- Posted on November 14, 2014

Would you eat chocolate-covered bugs?
The menu includes crickets and wax worms on toothpick skewers for dipping in a fountain of melted chocolate. It also includes "tarsal toffee" made with bug legs and mealworms, and fudge infused with crickets and marshmallows.
What looked like a Halloween trick was actually a...
- Posted on October 18, 2014

Would you wait in a line all night for a hot dog?
Chicago's hippest hot dog stand helped turn the lowly sausage into a culinary superstar. Customers even could order hot dogs stuffed with exotic ingredients. Like rattlesnake.
So when the owner announced the gourmet shop was closing, everyone expected hot dog fans to line u...
- Posted on October 7, 2014

Burger King Japan's latest meal is the new black
The first Kuro, or black, burger had a signature black bun and sauce. Last year's edition, the Kuro Ninja, added a slice of (non-black) bacon to the signature black components. Now Burger King Japan is going black on black.
The fast-food chain has added black cheese and deep...
- Posted on September 23, 2014

Tour a big city – one pizza at a time!
Chicago is famous for its deep-dish pizza. But tourists wouldn't know that the locals more often eat a thinner-crust, tavern-style pie topped with homemade Italian sausage and cut into squares, not slices. Not unless they went on a pizza tour.
Chicago is one of a handful of ...
- Posted on September 19, 2014